THE WOOD WHISPERER IS PROUDLY SPONSORED BY:
s than I care to admit. So when I started making The Wood Whisperer, I knew I wanted it to be light-hearted and energetic. Watch more than a few of my shows, and you’ll quickly see that I am a goofball. While I take my woodworking very seriously, there is no reason I can’t smile, make jo...
I say bring it on! In many things, competition means the consumer wins and I feel this is no exception. I lost interest in the travelling woodworking shows years ago and I was surprised and elated to see the recent growth of Woodworking in America. I was even more excited with their recent promise ...
211; Evolution of a Workshop Article – My Humble Beginnings Video – October 2009 Shop Tour Video – A Moving Experience Video – Updated Shop Tour Video – The King and His Castle ...
ain areas: a marketplace and the educational sessions. The marketplace was approximately the same size as the show floor at the traveling woodworking shows, only the vendors here were much more engaged and of a higher caliber. Even if you didn’t attend a single session, you could get some qu...
This is old news for some of you, but in case you haven’t heard, Popular Woodworking and Woodworking Magazine have merged! This has caused quite a stir amongst subscribers of both publications. Popular Woodworking was a bit more of a “something for everyone” offering, with proje...
If you like The Wood Whisperer, you’ll love… Video Producers Matt’s Basement Workshop – Matt is known to us as “The Podfather”. He was the original woodworking podcaster. After all these years, he is still cranking out great audio and video content. Renaissance W...
any great ones do… late at night in a bar. At a recent gathering of woodworkers, we were sitting around a table asking ourselves, “How can woodworking be saved?” After all, with most schools no longer offering a shop class, millions of school age kids might not ever get the opportu...
One of my favorite events of the year has got to be The Woodworking Shows. If you’ve never been, you owe it to yourself to check it out. Its basically a huge convention focused on everything woodworking. From major power tools to router bits to shop consumables, its all there. And if shopping...
Someone posed a very good question in a forum thread recently, and I wanted to bring the discussion to you. The gist was that all of the recent excitement over woodworking (blogs/podcasts/etc…) could actually be BAD for the craft. The logic presented was that many of our great woodworkers h...
Woodworking machines cough up fine dust that is harmful to your lungs. It is essential to develop a game-plan for dust control. Fine Woodworking magazine editor Asa Christiana shares simple strategies for taming dust and shows off the solution he arranged in his home shop. For more woodworking tips...
Are you a woodworking gearhead or geek? When I think of those terms, the image of the “tool collector” comes to mind. You know the one. The guy who has every tool in the world and knows every minute detail about the motor and how one tool brand compares to another. Their shop is spo...
to our current technology and the more flexible scheduling of public access TV stations, our web show is being broadcast on TV in select markets. The shows are pretty much the same, but have been re-edited and formatted to look good on a non-HD channel. We know that the shows are being downloaded...